Selected cold medicine required by wearing contact lenses carefully

Selected cold medicine required by wearing contact lenses carefully

Temperature rise in the near future, but sooner or later, temperature difference is larger, has gradually many people cold. Experts caution that people who wear contact lenses to buy cold medicine need to differentiate, see effect also to see whether the drug will make eyes dry, uncomfortable. People's Hospital of Peking University Ophthalmology chief physician Li ming Wu pointed out that there is a channel between the nose and eyes, people catch cold easily through this channel passes the bacteria and viruses to the eye, causing infection. In addition, retinal inflammation in colds often accompanied by mild, contact lens easily increase inflammation. And patients with a large number of viruses and bacteria on the hands, easy to take, enter in the eye while wearing glasses. In addition, Li ming Wu stressed that many anti-cold medicine containing element of suppression of tear secretion, result in reduced lens is too dry, transparency, thereby affecting vision. At present, many Western medicines such as resistance to colds, cough and Painkiller containing acetaminophen, such as histamine antagonists and antiallergic constituents, may cause dry mouth, dry nose and eye, the lens is too dry, transparency, reduce, affect the vision. Cornea itself is easy to dry, if artificially reduce the degree of cornea moist, easily lead to inflammation such as keratitis, conjunctivitis, eye redness, itching and a sense of foreign body, itself for myopia eyes are "worse". Therefore, people who wear contact lenses in reading drug directions carefully when selecting cold medicine to see if mark can relieve a runny nose, tears of the words, as far as possible to avoid such drugs. If you really need to take such drugs, experts suggest that patients during the period of taking, dropping some artificial tears, supplementary eye moisture, while oral vitamin a is good for eyes, such as b vitamins.

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